Monday 1 November 2010 17.00 EDT
First published on Monday 1 November 2010 17.00 EDT

This is, one assumes, rather a confusing week to be Stephen Fry. On the one hand, you are nationally beloved, the second book of your autobiography, The Fry Chronicles, has just been serialised rather tremendously on Radio 4, and your BBC documentary about saving the white rhino has been a great success. On the other, some remarks you made to Attitude magazine about women and men and sex have been quoted, or misquoted, or at least re-contexted, all over town, and now everyone's calling you a flaming misogynist.

Whatever the truth of the matter, Fry has at least raised an important issue – namely the long-held myth that women don't like sex as much as men. "I feel sorry for straight men," Fry is reported as saying. "The only reason women will have sex with them is that sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship with a man, which is what they want. Of course, a lot of women will deny this, and say 'Oh no, but I love sex, I love it!' But do they go around having it the way that gay men do?"

Well no, we don't, but I've always assumed that this is because we're women, not men (gay or otherwise). The way that we express our sexuality is, by its nature, female; it is surely wrong to hold that up to male sexuality and declare it lacking, since this assumes male sexuality, and expressions thereof, to be the standard. Rest assured, we are red-blooded and lusty beings every bit as much as men, but we'll express it in our own way, thank you.

Brazil elected its first female president this week. Dilma Rousseff has taken over from Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, making her one of the most powerful women in the world (not that Forbes magazine would notice, of course) and bringing the total number of female world leaders to 18. Let's declare it a double victory. Are you a female world leader? Have you ever quoted Stephen Fry? And why don't more women go cottaging? Do let us know.